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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia"
+description: "Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 269"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 269 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Deeds"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-11"
+last_action: "2024-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f2e4c49-7576-43db-9b88-9271d5ab01ba"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=269&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "ab1b1bf3b07692d569b1d16cd47479426a319ccb64648f55cb5b607e15564666"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia SB 269 (2024) — Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb269%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=269)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb269%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=269)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb269%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=269)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Deeds — primary (person)
+- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
+- Swope — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-17** Committee substitute reported
+- **2024-01-18** On 1st reading
+- **2024-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-19** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-23** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 48) `passage`
+- **2024-01-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 48)
+- **2024-01-23** Ordered to House
+- **2024-01-24** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-01-24** Reference dispensed
+- **2024-01-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-26** Passed House (Roll No. 42) `passage`
+- **2024-01-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 43)
+- **2024-01-26** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-01-26** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-01-29** House Message received
+- **2024-01-30** To Governor 1/30/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-01-31** To Governor 1/30/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-01** To Governor 1/30/2029 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-02** Approved by Governor 2/2/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-02-05** Approved by Governor 2/2/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-02-06** Approved by Governor 2/2/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-23** Chapter 57, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f2e4c49-7576-43db-9b88-9271d5ab01ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+